Middleware Job Trends in Manchester

Middleware
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Middleware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 166 124
Rank change year-on-year +28 -42 +124
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 10 8 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.42% 0.22% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.92% 1.01% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 18
10th Percentile £56,646 £40,550 £36,270
25th Percentile £62,866 £44,000 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £51,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +60.19% -13.48% -6.22%
75th Percentile £86,250 £58,500 £73,421
90th Percentile £91,500 £61,650 £74,125
North West median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year +20.00% +5.00% +19.05%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Middleware falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 521 793 818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 22.00% 21.68% 33.05%
Number of salaries quoted 297 446 645
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £39,450
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £84,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +4.35%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Middleware relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Middleware job vacancy trend in Manchester

Middleware
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Middleware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Middleware

Middleware
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Middleware in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Middleware in Manchester

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) JBoss
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (20.00%) Intacct
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) Workato
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Boomi
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) iPaaS
3 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) KDB
2 2 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Ant
1 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Maven
1 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Applications Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 2 (20.00%) Applications Support Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Applications Support
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) Support Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Windows DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (40.00%) Rendezvous
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) SDLC
2 4 (40.00%) Electronic Trading
2 4 (40.00%) Low Latency
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Fintech
4 2 (20.00%) Information Security
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Storage Management
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Validation
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Secrets Management
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Podman
2 1 (10.00%) Puppet
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Bloomberg
1 4 (40.00%) Solace
1 4 (40.00%) TIBCO
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Concur
3 2 (20.00%) Sage
4 1 (10.00%) Dell
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (10.00%) Software AG
4 1 (10.00%) webMethods